Dear Colleagues. Please note significant updates to COVID 19 Screening and Swabbing Processes in Hamilton. Primary care MDs are required to screen their patients using the following criteria: Symptomatic health…
Dear Colleagues, Please find the new testing criteria for patients who are being assessed by public health and family medicine offices and referred to our assessment centres or testing site for testing.…
Dear Colleagues, We are reaching out to you because of the important issue of Advanced Care Planning (ACP) and Goals of Care (GOC) discussions with patients during the current COVID-19…
Please find the new testing criteria for patients who are being assessed by public health and family medicine offices and referred to our assessment centres for testing. These are a…
Hamilton is entering the active phase of community prevalent COVID 19. Many of you have made appreciable changes to how you provide care to your patients and embraced innovation with…
Bottom line – Here are the current guidelines for primary care to use when screening patients for referral to assessment centres for testing: As usual, only symptomatic people should be…
AMBULATORY CARE UPDATES: Please see the attached memo from HHS regarding the Ambulatory clinics, referral processes and follow up visits. SJHH is working similarly and I will provide communication on…
Here is the primary care “need to know” for Hamilton on updates to COVID-19 testing criteria. REMEMBER, WE ARE ONLY TESTING PEOPLE WHO ARE SYMPTOMATIC. THERE IS NO ROLE…
There is no “official news” today. We are waiting for updates and clarity on many issues that we all share (PPE, swab and testing criteria, system planning…there are many more). Watch…
Things are evolving very quickly regarding who we direct to assessment centres. There were many people seen yesterday (March 16, 2020) who were neither ill nor swabbed. Many had mild illness and…